Lucian Ashworth
Professor
SN 2045
Department of Political Science, Science Building
91亚色 of Newfoundland
St. John's, NL A1B 3X9 Canada
Telephone: (709) 864-4402
Email: lashworth[at]mun[dot]ca
Academics
BA Hons (Keele); MA & PhD (Dalhousie)
Areas for Student Research Supervision
- International relations theory
- The history of international thought
- Theories of war and peace
- Gender & race in international relations
- The Anthropocene & geopolitics.
Examples of Recent courses Taught
POSC 1001 Critical Reading and Writing in Politics and Governance
POSC 3230 The Global Politics of the End of the World (As We Know It)
POSC 3235 The First World War in International Politics
POSC 6200 Theories of International Politics
Bio
Before joining the Department I was at the University of Limerick in Ireland for sixteen years. I am the author of A History of International Thought (Routledge, 2014) and I am currently writing a book on international relations and time for the Routledge 榃orlding Beyond the West series.
Select Papers and Publications
Books
Lucian M. Ashworth, A History of International Thought. From the Origins of the Modern State to Academic International Relations (London: Routledge, 2014).
International Relations Theory and the Labour Party: Intellectuals and Policy Making 1918-1945 (London: IBTauris, 2007).
Creating International Studies. Angell, Mitrany and the Liberal Tradition (Aldershot: Ashgate, 1999).
(Edited with David Long) New Perspectives on International Functionalism (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1999).
Journal Articles
(with Antonio Ferraz de Oliveira) "Geopolitical Imaginations and Global Histories of International Thought: Adventures in Time and Space," Global Studies Quarterly, Volume 2026 6(2), ksag044,
淚R's Roads to Freedom: Rereading Jean-Paul Sartre's Trilogy as an International Relations Text, Review of International Studies, 2023 49(5), 924-936.
湗Mother of the Oceans: Maritime Governance as a Template for a New Global Order in the International Thought of Elisabeth Mann Borgese (19182002), Global Studies Quarterly, 2023 3(1), ksad010.
淕lobal Governance in the Anthropocenes. International Journal, 2022 77(3), 469484.
淲arriors, Pacifists and Empires: Race and Racism in International Thought Before 1914, International Affairs, 2022 98(1), 281-381.
淐zechs and Germans in the Twenty Years Crisis. Mackinder, Carr, & Wiskemann on Central and Eastern Europe After the Peace, Journal of International Relations and Development, December 2021 24(4), 848-65.
淎 Forgotten Environmental International Relations: Derwent Whittlesey's International Thought, Global Studies Quarterly, Volume June 2021, 1(2), ksab006.
淩e-reading Niebuhr檚 The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness: The Crisis of Democracy in an Interdependent World Then and Now, Journal of International Political Theory, 2021 17(2) 123-138.
淐hronicle of a Death Foretold? The 19534 CFR Study Group Meeting and the Decline of International Thought International History Review, 2020 42(3), 656-671.
淒avid Mitrany on the International Anarchy. A Lost Work of Classical Realism? Journal of International Political Theory, October 2017 13(3), 311-324.
Mapping a New World: Geography and the Interwar Study of International Relations. International Studies Quarterly, March 2013, 57(1), 138149.
淭he Poverty of Paradigms: Subcultures, Trading Zones and the Case of Liberal Socialism in Interwar International Relations, International Relations, March 2012, vol. 26 no. 1, 35-59.
淩ealism and the Spirit of 1919: Halford Mackinder, Geopolitics, and the Reality of the League of Nations, European Journal of International Relations, June 2011, 17(2), 279-301.
淔eminism, War and the Prospects for International Government. Helena Swanwick (1864-1939) and the Lost Feminists of Interwar International Relations. International Feminist Journal of Politics, March 2011, 13(1) 24-42.
(with Tim Shaw) 淐ommonwealth Perspectives on International Relations, International Affairs, December 2010, 86(5), 1149-1165.
淩ethinking a Socialist Foreign Policy: The British Labour Party and International Relations Experts 1918 to 1931, International Labor and Working-Class History, 2009, 75, 30-48.
淚nterdisciplinarity and International Relations, European Political Science, March 2009, 8(1), 16-25.
淲here are the Idealists in Inter-War International Relations?, Review of International Studies, 2006, 32, 291-308.
淒avid Mitrany and South East Europe: The Balkan Key to World Peace, Historical Review, 2005, 2, 203-224.
淭he Limits of Enlightenment: Inter-State Relations in Eighteenth Century Political Thought, Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, 2003(9), 110-40.
淒id the Realist-Idealist Great Debate Really Happen? A Revisionist History of International Relations, International Relations, 2002, 16(1) 33-51.
Book Chapters
淟iberal Progressivism and International History in M. Bukovansky, E. Keene, C. Reus-Smit, & M. Spanu (eds) The Oxford Handbook of History and International Relations (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023), 51-64.
湗The Past, Present and Future of Global Thought Reviewing a Handbook Chapter from 2122. In Horn, L., Mert, A., M眉ller, F. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Global Politics in the 22nd Century (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023) 31-46.
淒isciplinary Traditions and Debates: The Subject Matters of International Thought in Benjamin de Cavalho, Julia Costa Lopez, and Halvard Leira (eds), Routledge Handbook of Historical International Relations (London: Routledge, 2021), 113-26.
淲omen of the Twenty Years Crisis: The Women檚 International League for Peace and Freedom and the Problems of Collective Security in Patricia Owens and Katharina Rietzler (eds), Women檚 International Thought. A New History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021), 136-57.
淔rom Emulation to Enmity: the Changing View of Germany in Anglo-American Geopolitics in Jens Steffek & Leonie Holthaus, Prussians, Nazis and Peaceniks: Changing images of Germany in International Relations (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020), 64-81.
淟os Mitos Que Me Ense帽贸 Mi Profesor De Relaciones Internacionales Reconstruyendo La Historia Del Pensamiento Internacional in Alberto Lozano V谩zquez et al (eds) 驴Cien A帽os De Relaciones Internacionales? (Ciudad de M茅xico: Siglo XXI Editores, 2019), 213-249.
淚ndustrialization and Competitive Globalization After 1873: International Thought and the Problem of Resources in Daniel M. Green (ed.), The Two Worlds of Nineteenth Century International Relations (London: Routledge, 2019), 119-137.
淗ow Should We Approach the History of International Thought? in Brian C. Schmidt and Nicolas Guilhot (eds), Historiographical Invesitigations in International Relations (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), 79-95.
淎 Historiographer檚 View: Rewriting the History of International Thought, in Andreas Gofas, Inanna Hamati-Ataya, and Nicholas Onuf (eds), History, The Sage Handbook of the Philosophy and Sociology of International Relations (London: Sage, 2018), 529-541.
淧rogressivism Triumphant? Isaiah Bowman檚 New Diplomacy in a New World, in Molly Cochran & Cornelia Navari (eds) Progressivism and US Foreign Policy Between the World Wars (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)
淭he Republic of Norman Angell (1872-1967): A Dialogue (with Apologies to Plato), in Richard Ned Lebow, Peer Schouten and Hidemi Suganami (eds), The Return of the Theorists. Dialogues with Great Thinkers in International Relations (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), 182-192.
淒emocratic Socialism and International Thought in Interwar Britain, in Ian Hall (ed.), Radicals and Reactionaries in Twentieth Century International Thought (Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), 75-100.
榁on grossen Illusionen und bewaffnetem Frieden: Norman Angell und H. N. Brailsford 眉ber die Ursachen internationaler Konflikte in Jens Steffek and Leonie Holthaus (eds), Jenseits de Anarchie: Weltordnungsentw眉rfe im fr眉hen 20. Jahrhundert (Frankfurt: Campus, 2014), 73-95.
楢 New Politics for a Global Age. David Mitrany檚 A Working Peace System in H. Bliddal, C. Sylvest and P. Wilson (eds), Classics of International Relations. Essays in Criticism and Appreciation (Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2013).
'Missing Voices: Critical IPE, Disciplinary History and H. N. Brailsford's Analysis of the Capitalist International Anarchy' in Stuart Shields, Ian Bruff and Huw Macartney (eds), CRITICAL INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY. DIALOGUE, DEBATE AND DISSENSUS (Basingstoke/New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), 9-26.
淚bn Khaldun and the Origins of State Politics in N. Persram (ed.) Political Theory and Postcolonialism (Lexington: Lexington Books, 2007).
淭he League of Nations as a Utopian Project: The Labour Party Advisory Committee on International Questions and the Search for a New World Order in T. Moylan and M. Griffin, The Utopian Impulse (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2007).
淐lashing Utopias: H. G. Wells Reception in Ireland in P. Parrinder and J. Partington (eds), The Reception of H. G. Wells in Europe (London: Continuum, 2005).
(Co-authored with Larry Swatuk) 淢asculinity and the Fear of Emasculation in International Relations Theory, in J. Parpart and M. Zalewski (eds), The Man Question in International Relations (Boulder, Co: Westview, 1998)